Columbus Short arrested for public intoxication

Actor Columbus Short, who previously starred on Scandal, was arrested for public intoxication on Friday night, after getting into an altercation over a bar tab.

According to the New York Daily News, the actor was celebrating Independence Day at the Katy Trail Ice House in Dallas, Texas. When Short, 31, started to leave without paying for his drinks, the bar’s security guard approached him. TMZ reported that the intoxicated Short became aggravated and accused the guard of being racist. According to The Daily Mail, the guard was also African American.

Police officers tried to break up the altercation, and were accosted by Short, who, as the Daily News suggests, allegedly turned on them.

A witness to Short’s attack described the ex-Scandal star, “like a dog with a bone who wouldn’t let go.” Short was soon after arrested for public intoxication.